Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees?

Mz6 wrote with a link to an article on The Independent site about a most unusual scientific theory. "Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail. They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world — the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops."

Comments

Let's grow a vegeta-city!

[OminousZ]

Who the f*ck uses a cellphone in the middle of a crop field?

crock of shit

[timmarhy]

this is pure bullshit. i can't even dignify this with a rebuttal. move along.

Can We Please Ban Mobile Phones Now?

[morari]

I mean, really. As if the things weren't annoying enough ten years ago when only business suit wearing, Star Bucks drinking, wanna-be executives were using them. Now every stupid little teenager (and probably pre-teen) has them, and they all have them "pimped out" with colored faceplates and custom ring tones. I can't go anywhere nowadays without hearing a cell phone ring, hearing someone idly walking around the store talking about nothing on one or taking photos with them. They're stupid and annoying. Very, VERY few people need to be connected like that 24/7. And driving?! Everyone drives with them as well, as if they weren't already horribly reckless morons behind the wheel. In the least, could we pass national laws to completely forbid driving and talking (and actually enforce it) as well as stop anyone under the age of eighteen (twenty-one?) from owning or operating a cell phone? Then, of course, the next step would be to start lining buildings with lead as they're constructed, so as to block out the signals...